-Livemint.com The year that is drawing to a close was dotted by extreme weather events, posing new challenges for weather forecasting New Delhi: Unseasonal rains and crop damage in several states, followed by deficit rainfall and drought in nine states, topped off by a deluge in Chennai at the end of 2015. The year that is drawing to a close was dotted by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent. Several...
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Freak weather whipped up a perfect storm -Rukmini S & B Aravind Kumar
-The Hindu 2015’s El Niño on course to being the strongest ever. The highest daily rainfall in a century. Freak weather conditions on one day. The hottest-ever Indian Ocean. The strongest-ever El Niño. The hottest year on record. The bad news is that a perfect storm of meteorological conditions combined to create Chennai’s worst-ever deluge last week, exacerbated in no small part by civic infrastructure pushed to its limit and systemic dysfunction. The...
More »2015 to be India’s hottest year ever, says IMD -Neha Madaan
-The Times of India PUNE: This year is not only in line to be the hottest on record globally but also in India. The country has lived through its hottest September, October and November this year, reveals India Meteorological Department's data going back to 1901. The countrywide mean temperature in November this year was 1.25 degrees C above normal, the highest-ever for the month since record keeping began. The mean minimum and...
More »Deluged Chennai cries for help as airport flooded, trains stop, phones out
-The Times of India CHENNAI: There was no let up to the rain fury in the city and several coastal parts of Tamil Nadu. The city received 34.5cm rain in the past 24 hours. Met officials said the state hasn't been lashed by such a downpour in 100 years. Road and and rail links are down and the airport is flooded. Complaints of patchy to poor mobile phone service have been coming...
More »Tamil Nadu deluge climate change trailer, matches global warming signs -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Heavy rains and deadly flooding in south India, a region that saw a killer heat wave this summer, are weather patterns that appear to fit the scenarios of climate change in India, IMD chief Laxman Singh Rathore has said. “They (emerging weather patterns) fit the larger picture of climate change predicted by Indian scientists as well as global reports,” Rathore told HT. Episodes of excessive rainfall are increasing while the...
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